Karl Jaspers on Truth and Dialogue

A Rethinking of His Philosophy of Universal Communication

Anton Hügli (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

238 Seiten

2025
Lexington Books (Verlag)
978-1-7936-4912-6 (ISBN)

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At the heart of Karl Jaspers on Truth and Dialogue is the question of the possibilities and limits of global communication. Anton Hügli shows how disastrous it is for the individual, for society, and for the destiny of humanity when the will to communicate is lacking.

The German philosopher Karl Jaspers was moved by the possibilities of global understanding throughout his life and penetrated it more deeply than any other thinker before him. Anton Hügli argues that Jaspers' petition to not proclaim a new doctrine,—but to continue thinking along the path taken by the great philosophers of the past,—is itself an expression of his unconditional will to communicate. The limits of communication that Jaspers shows us are not accidental psychological and sociological obstacles to understanding, but limits that we humans encounter as humans: we want to communicate what cannot be communicated.

Instead of an understanding based on a truth that can be understood by all, there is a struggle between the powers of faith. How we can communicate with one another and work for peace and unity in the world? This ultimate question requires a twofold clarification: on the one hand, of the nature of the objects that have always been considered inexpressible, the human’s individual existence and God as the ultimate One, and on the other hand, of the faculty in us that allows us to think things that cannot be thought.

Anton Hügli is professor emeritus of philosophy and education at the University of Basel.

Preface
Abbreviations
Introduction
1. A First Approach to Karl Jaspers
2. The Modes of Encompassing and Their Different Sense of Truth
3. Choosing One's Self - An Approach to the Concept of Existence
4. Loneliness (Einsamkeit) and Communication
5. Encounters with Transcendence
6. Jaspers’ Notion of Illumination of Reason
7. The Decision Between Direct and Indirect Communication
8. Jasper's Philosophy as an Expression of His Unconditional Will to Communicate
9. The Idea of the One and Negative Theology
10. Philosophical Faith
11. Democracy as Self-Education. The Will to Unconditional Communication in Politics
Summary
Bibliography
About the Author

Erscheinungsdatum	30.01.2025
Reihe/Serie	Contemporary Studies in Idealism
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Geschichte der Philosophie
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Philosophie der Neuzeit
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie ► Persönlichkeitsstörungen
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Allgemeines / Lexika
ISBN-10	1-7936-4912-X / 179364912X
ISBN-13	978-1-7936-4912-6 / 9781793649126
Zustand	Neuware